Nicholas Young joins The Tomorrow People

Nicholas Young, who starred in the original 1970s series of The Tomorrow People, is to join the cast of the US remake of the show, it has been announced.

Nicholas Young, now 64, played John, the leader of the Tomorrow People, in the original series of The Tomorrow People, which was created by Roger Price in the early 1970s.

In the US version, Young will play Aldus Crick, the scientist who first discovered the Tomorrow People.

He will join the current Tomorrow People – played by Robbie Amell (Revenge), the cousin of Arrow star Stephen Amell, Peyton List (Mad Men), Madeleine Mantock (Casualty), Luke Mitchell (Home and Away), Mark Pellegrino (Being Human) and Aaron Yoo (The Bedford Diaries) – in episodes eight and nine of the first season of the new series, TV Guide reveals.